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BOUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bout mean?
• BOUT (noun)
The noun BOUT has 4 senses:
1. (sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive
2. a period of illness
3. a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)
4. an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
Familiarity information: BOUT used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("bout" is a kind of...):
division; part; section (one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole)
Domain category:
athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bout"):
top; top of the inning (the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat)
bottom; bottom of the inning (the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat)
Holonyms ("bout" is a part of...):
period of play; play; playing period ((in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A period of illness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context example:
a bout of depression
Hypernyms ("bout" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("bout" is a kind of...):
competition; contest (an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An occasion for excessive eating or drinking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
Context example:
they went on a bust that lasted three days
Hypernyms ("bout" is a kind of...):
revel; revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bout"):
piss-up (vulgar expression for a bout of heavy drinking)
Context examples
He bounded back from his perilous foeman; but the other, heated by the bout, rushed madly after him, and so gave the practised wrestler the very vantage for which he had planned.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You heard of my bout with the Chevalier d’Eon?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I suppose Lady Middleton won't ask us any more this bout.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
In this study, Dr Alison McNeilly and colleagues at the University of Dundee used insulin to induce repeated bouts of low blood sugar in a mouse model of type-1 diabetes.
(Antioxidants May Prevent Cognitive Impairment in Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He was like one recovering from some terrible bout of hardship.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
With intensive care, the child survived numerous bouts of severe illness, and her health improved as her immune system matured and formed protective antibodies against various infectious agents.
(Scientists discover rare genetic susceptibility to common cold, National Institutes of Health)
The present study involved 13 newborn infants in a neonatal ward who had a bout of hiccups.
(Baby Hiccups Key to Brain Development, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The cloud, which has a mass on the order of 400,000 suns, is undergoing an intense bout of star formation.
(Herschel sees budding stars and a giant, strange ring, NASA)
A thousand waving scarves and tossing caps announced that the first bout had fallen to the popular party.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With a sinking heart, filled with pity and admiration for these two gallant men, I longed that every bout might be the last, and yet the Time! was hardly out of Jackson’s mouth before they had both sprung from their second’s knees, with laughter upon their mutilated faces and chaffing words upon their bleeding lips.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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